You're utterly right. Standards have done nothing for us, and won't ever.
I know that I love testing my pages in all the different flavors of IE on Win, Mac and Linux. And, its even better making sure the NN 4.x and Netscape 6 work too. I mean, some people like being creative with their time, but me, I like screwing with different CSS, JS and HTML flavors of the different browsers.
I also agree that XSLT is a total waste of time. Its not like its supported by any browsers. Well, it is supported by numerious server technologies, and is used to render content in HTML lots of places on the Web. And, I guess if you really look at it, it probably never was intended for the browser anyway. But, you're right! Just because I don't fully understand it, its a total waste of time!
And, you are so dead on with the W3C. I mean, any organization that could produce XML 1.0 is a bogus waste of time. What is XML ever going to do for us? It doesn't even have a FONT tag!
(Come on man, I hope you were kidding. Standards allow us to do our job... not prevent us. Learn about the stuff. Don't just stick to HTML 3.2... the Web has moved on.)
Physical paper money is just a way to exchange labor for other things, like food. Wealth might be meaningless, if you come from the hippy mind-set, but money is our labor, skills and time.
And, what alternative do we have to capitalism? Socialism is dead, or dying. Communism works for ants but not us. What's left? Feudalism?
I seem to remember, maybe from a/. article, that only about half our Martian probes have been successful. So, bash the computer programmers all ya want, but lay off the Martian probes.
Ever caught a cold? I'll even bet you've had two colds in your life. There ya go, evolution in the works.
Now, I'll admit Natural Selection might be more of an easy target for debate (Man from hominid), but as for Evolution, get a box of fruit flies, do nasty stuff to them and in a few generations, you'll have fruit flies that can resist what ever nasty stuff you do to them. That, or they'll go wild and attack you.
Is science based on faith? Yes, to a degree. But, the subject of the faith is constantly looked at, tweaked and revised. Science admits it doesn't know The Truth, but instead looks for it. Religion says "here's the truth, with a nice bow" and resents anyone looking closer.
And, don't block out other religions. I'm assuming you're a Christian or Jewish, but every faith I've heard of has a creation myth. Which one is true? So, since you're saying that scientific arguments fall apart because scientists can't agree on the details, when then, since Christ and Buddha don't see eye-to-eye, I guess we'll toss religion out too.
about how these projects might not translate into Earth based solutions. I think it is much better for NASA to sell the planets and the raw scientific discovery rather than promises that "if we do this on Mars, then it will solve all of Earth's problems." Too often I hear people say that they support the space program because of the possible benefit it can have on Earth. While a truck load of products and research has can out of the space program, I feel that we benefit much more from the knowledge and understanding that comes from learning about our universe rather than nifty new heat resistant tiles.
I hope that browser market will grow... to many people say that their pages don't work in such and such browser. It *could* be errors in the browser itself, but more likely, its errors in the coding. If multiple, quality browsers finally chip away at MSIE's lead, maybe folks who create WYSIWYG editors and people who use them will modify their behavior to fit the standards. Dreamweaver is cool, and fast, I admit, but it doesn't create pages that can be easily maintained or trusted to view as they should.
Maybe, if these indie browsers finally catch up in quality, so will the Web designers.
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You're utterly right. Standards have done nothing for us, and won't ever.
... not prevent us. Learn about the stuff. Don't just stick to HTML 3.2 ... the Web has moved on.)
I know that I love testing my pages in all the different flavors of IE on Win, Mac and Linux. And, its even better making sure the NN 4.x and Netscape 6 work too. I mean, some people like being creative with their time, but me, I like screwing with different CSS, JS and HTML flavors of the different browsers.
I also agree that XSLT is a total waste of time. Its not like its supported by any browsers. Well, it is supported by numerious server technologies, and is used to render content in HTML lots of places on the Web. And, I guess if you really look at it, it probably never was intended for the browser anyway. But, you're right! Just because I don't fully understand it, its a total waste of time!
And, you are so dead on with the W3C. I mean, any organization that could produce XML 1.0 is a bogus waste of time. What is XML ever going to do for us? It doesn't even have a FONT tag!
(Come on man, I hope you were kidding. Standards allow us to do our job
--Mark.
Physical paper money is just a way to exchange labor for other things, like food. Wealth might be meaningless, if you come from the hippy mind-set, but money is our labor, skills and time. And, what alternative do we have to capitalism? Socialism is dead, or dying. Communism works for ants but not us. What's left? Feudalism?
I seem to remember, maybe from a /. article, that only about half our Martian probes have been successful. So, bash the computer programmers all ya want, but lay off the Martian probes.
Ever caught a cold? I'll even bet you've had two colds in your life. There ya go, evolution in the works.
Now, I'll admit Natural Selection might be more of an easy target for debate (Man from hominid), but as for Evolution, get a box of fruit flies, do nasty stuff to them and in a few generations, you'll have fruit flies that can resist what ever nasty stuff you do to them. That, or they'll go wild and attack you.
Is science based on faith? Yes, to a degree. But, the subject of the faith is constantly looked at, tweaked and revised. Science admits it doesn't know The Truth, but instead looks for it. Religion says "here's the truth, with a nice bow" and resents anyone looking closer.
And, don't block out other religions. I'm assuming you're a Christian or Jewish, but every faith I've heard of has a creation myth. Which one is true? So, since you're saying that scientific arguments fall apart because scientists can't agree on the details, when then, since Christ and Buddha don't see eye-to-eye, I guess we'll toss religion out too.
Rant, rant, rant.
Joke or flamebait, rigth?
about how these projects might not translate into Earth based solutions. I think it is much better for NASA to sell the planets and the raw scientific discovery rather than promises that "if we do this on Mars, then it will solve all of Earth's problems." Too often I hear people say that they support the space program because of the possible benefit it can have on Earth. While a truck load of products and research has can out of the space program, I feel that we benefit much more from the knowledge and understanding that comes from learning about our universe rather than nifty new heat resistant tiles.
I hope that browser market will grow ... to many people say that their pages don't work in such and such browser. It *could* be errors in the browser itself, but more likely, its errors in the coding. If multiple, quality browsers finally chip away at MSIE's lead, maybe folks who create WYSIWYG editors and people who use them will modify their behavior to fit the standards. Dreamweaver is cool, and fast, I admit, but it doesn't create pages that can be easily maintained or trusted to view as they should.
Maybe, if these indie browsers finally catch up in quality, so will the Web designers.